# EU countries by adult literacy rate, 2011

All 10 values come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics for 2011, so the places are comparable. 5 EU countries have no value for that period and are not ranked.

- Indicator id: `literacy_rate_adult`
- Unit: %
- Definition: People aged 15 and over who can both read and write, with understanding, a short simple statement about their everyday life, as a percentage of the population aged 15 and over. UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Literacy rate, adult total, % of people ages 15 and above (SE.ADT.LITR.ZS) (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ADT.LITR.ZS)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/unesco-institute-for-statistics
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Literacy rate, adult total, % of people ages 15 and above (SE.ADT.LITR.ZS). Retrieved through World Bank World Development Indicators (data.worldbank.org). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ADT.LITR.ZS. Retrieved 2026-10-12. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. UIS does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/adult-literacy-rate/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Latvia | 99.9 |
| 2 | Estonia | 99.9 |
| 3 | Lithuania | 99.8 |
| 4 | Italy | 98.8 |
| 5 | Cyprus | 98.7 |
| 6 | Romania | 98.6 |
| 7 | Bulgaria | 98.3 |
| 8 | Spain | 97.8 |
| 9 | Portugal | 94.5 |
| 10 | Malta | 93.3 |